Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Asterozoa > Class Asteroidea > Subclass Ambuloasteroidea > Infraclass Neoasteroidea > Superorder Valvatacea > Order Paxillosida > Family Benthopectinidae > Genus Cheiraster

Cheiraster (Barbadosaster) A.M. Clark, 1981

Rank: Subgenus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

CheirasterStuder, 1883accepted genus name
Cheiraster (Cheiraster) Studer, 1883 synonym

Children

Cheiraster (Barbadosaster) echinulatus (Perrier, 1875)

Literature

original description

Clark, A. M. (1981). Notes on Atlantic and other Asteroidea. 1. Family Benthopectinidae. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology) 41: 91-135.

basis of record

Clark, A. M.; Downey, M. E. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall. London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp.

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Citation

Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Cheiraster (Barbadosaster) A.M. Clark, 1981. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178240

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2009-01-19 by Christopher Mah

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